I've been on a spray painting binge today. I had a new belt tensioner shipped to me. It comes in bare aluminum. I don't see any reason why other than cost savings? My old tensioner was pretty corroded (can see it in background of the photo).
I painted the new one and the alternator bracket with self etch primer and hi temp silver paint (that's just what I happened to have on the shelf, not that I needed high temp). Self etch was advice from some bodyshop trade website I came across.
Just wondering if anyone else has done this or any experience? If it is bad then too late now. I probably should have asked first before I did it but oh well.
Bonus was removing the pulley and putting antisieze on it so it might actually come off if I need to remove it in a few years...or come off on it's own unexpectedly one day haha. Definitely going to put antiseize on the mounting surface and pegs too because one of them on the old tensioner got stuck in my bracket and I had drill it out.
I painted the new one and the alternator bracket with self etch primer and hi temp silver paint (that's just what I happened to have on the shelf, not that I needed high temp). Self etch was advice from some bodyshop trade website I came across.
Just wondering if anyone else has done this or any experience? If it is bad then too late now. I probably should have asked first before I did it but oh well.
Bonus was removing the pulley and putting antisieze on it so it might actually come off if I need to remove it in a few years...or come off on it's own unexpectedly one day haha. Definitely going to put antiseize on the mounting surface and pegs too because one of them on the old tensioner got stuck in my bracket and I had drill it out.